Cleveland County
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29 December 2017
Cherry
Cemetery
aka Temperance Chapel Cemetery
County Road 122, Rison, Arkansas
Temperance Chapel Cemetery and Site of a Methodist Church South
"Madison Tate McGehee and his wife Lucy Cosby McGehee sold this 4 acres of
land on June 13, 1854 for forty dollars to the trustees of the Temperance Chapel
Methodist Church South. The trustees were S. Treadwell, S. Mathew, C.A.
Standfield, C. Varnell and Thomas Chowning. A two story building was on this
property at the time of purchase. The McGehee's specified the use of the lower
floor by the Methodist Church and the upper floor to be used by the Masonic
Fraternity and any Temperance Association. The remainder of the land was to be
used as a public burying ground."
Cleveland County Bicentennial - 1976